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    In the mean time, he can deal with the children here when they throw sand in the sandbox....!
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    Not a problem....!
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    Let me play the devils advocate, how many people are actually going to drag race the cars in question, or brag endlessly at the dinner table about how fast their new car is? And this is one of my objections the whole design looks heavy and a little bit too feminine. I much prefer the more masculine look of say the CTS
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    I know....but to me it is a sad thing personally, because I do think you would make a fantastic father. If nothing else, the world needs more people that can think critically, and I cannot imagine you and Albert raising children that did not know how to think rationally.
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    I suggested sending the Lincoln off for crash testing in another post, why don't we compromise? we'll buy one Fusion Sport and one of the above mentioned Lincoln. I will weld the Lincon back end on the front of the Fusion, and you can have the Lincon with the fusions back end... DMV may wonder WTF we did when we go to register though....
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    I am getting less sporty as I get older. maybe I am an idiot (no maybe about that in many peoples minds) but i am not sure why all car makers seem to want to sell upscale sedans as "Sport Sedans?" Certainly even a base WRX or a stripper GTI S is more sporty than most sport sedans in terms of driving dynamics and overall feel. At least in my mind.
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    Or at least for dad...I could see him making up some fantastic bed time stories!
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    Volt sales should go up with time. Most owners are fanatical about how much they love their car, and as more are resold used to people the customer base rises. Mini on the other hand has had their day.
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    If I ever get to the point I can afford an F type R, I can probably buy the wheels....but yes, F type FTW!
  10. A Horse With No Name
    They have lost their way from a marketing standpoint and will probably never re find it. Imprezza much more closely matches what the market wants. Subaru met its 2020 sales goal 4 years early.... MINI is trying to re catch its sales goals from a decade ago.
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    If we are buying Euro I would option up a Jag F type before I would buy this.
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    Just the opposite, I think it looks hideous from the front, worse than the already badly designed Acura and Lexus models. The tail light treatment in the back I can go for.
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    As much as it pains me to have to agree with you and as much as I am not a Lincoln fan, I really will agree here. For what it is, they did a really nice job with the MKZ in terms of material quality and features. Still would buy an IS 200 or IS 350 over the Lincoln, but I will give them credit where credit is due. And while I would probably buy an Acura product over a Lincoln for handling and other things I like, the Lincoln product Lineup does a much better job than Acura at feeling upscale and being pleasant to live with. So I will pick Lincoln out of the two choices...now leaving my word processor to wash my mouth out with soap after saying that but yes, I would take the Lincoln! There are a lot of things about the Lincoln lineup I do not like at all. See my above comment about Lexus.
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    I would also take the Impala. It is a much more athletic looking car.
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    Interesting.
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    Why we are discussing what companies did eight or nine years ago to survive when the thread is about which company is gaining ground now is beyond me. Yes, Ford has a certain amount of debt load but neither company was respo0nsible for the crash of 2008. If anything, had the US been more sane from a political and banking standpoint, we might still have Pontiac and Mercury. In terms of where they are now, I have absolutely no love for modern Lincolns, but love most of the current Ford line up. If anything, GM is ahead in my mind because I feel they understand electric and hybrid car technology better and that will be the wave of the future, in spite of members here who need to change their Depends undergarments and come forward six decades into an understanding of the modern automotive market.
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    On the contrary, I work on a university campus and the majority of students that I talk to want to actually own an electric or hybrid car. Just because your close friends in the bingo and shuffleboard crowd really liked the six volt systems in their Studebakers, Packards and DeSotos does not mean that modern electric vehicles are unwanted.
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    They seem unable to think outside the box. They down re vehicles as terrible that people freaking love. The Jeep Wrangler has one of the largest cult followings of any vehicle on the planet and yet it is at the bottom of the CR scores. It is almost like the CR editors don't think people are smart enough to decide on their own if they like a car.
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    People whine endlessly when car makers give us in many ways an excellent choice of vehicles. People over on the Miata Forum are complaining they can't get a yellow Miata. Never going to buy another Mazda product...when they should be glad they are offered a low volume specialty convertible in the first place. My sister and her husband run a catering business and were rated number one caterer in Western North Carolina. They dropped to number two the next year when they did not buy advertising in the magazine giving the rating. God only knows what BMW Benz and Toyota do for the folks at places like car and driver. Millions of people do.
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    What should the rest of us do to improve the situation?
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    And at that price, a whole new world opens up to you. ...and sorry if I seemed unusually harsh in my earlier comments. The existential angst of selling back my TDI is starting to hit home. Beginning to think there won't be a fix and I do not want to subject my car to a sad, short life after it leaves my hands. Also do not really find myself being sold on anything I am looking at for a repalcemnt. that being said, I really dislike the Lincoln in question in this thread.
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    I think a more critical question to ask is what cars are built where an automaker has not clearly lost its way. Honda has built some brilliant cars, like the NSX, prelude, older Civic SI's the older generations of Accords, the S2000 and many others. Current product line seems in many ways kind of value engineered in a bad sort of a way and genuinely uninspired. A car should be a purchase you make with passion for something built with passion, not merely a Corolla because everything else is equally passionless.
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    Bingo! Can we keep the kind of cool historical looking greenish house in the back ground and send this to IIHS for voluntary crash testing?
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    They also do not spell out the real issues. With my beloved BRZ/FRS twins, they list fuel pump issue. Fuel pump issue is a noise known to owners as crickets, car will run 300,000 miles with a noisy fuel pump no problem. First gen VW TDI common rail (2009-2014 anything but the Passat) high pressure fuel pump would blow and send shrapnel through the system, resulting in a repair that ran between $3500 and $8000. Aftermarket came up with a two micron filter that partially solved this, but it was a known issue for VW for 5 years and they never did a damned thing but have a soft warranty where they would pay dealers in some cases to repair cars. They also never extended the warranty to Canada, so if you were a Canadian customer you were SOL. And yet CR said that the BRZ was below average reliability for the fuel pump issue and rated the VW TDI models as average. That is a major failure to the future owners of these vehicles, 99 percent of whom are not gear heads like we are.
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